KJB: The Book That Changed the World

Hulu.com ^ | April 5, 2011 | Lions Gate

[daniel1212]

Movie :
KJB: The Book That Changed the World

Of all places, Hulu has this well done, interesting and edifying documentary (with ads) with actor John Rhys-Davies.

Describes King James 1 upbringing and and political events, including the Gunpowder Plot and shows historical background and aspects which led to this translation.

1:33 long. Worth watching. Has ads (choose priceline ones)

[Gamecock]

That certainly is a lot of words.

May I suggest you learn to use the command <p>? It will increase the odds that someone may actually read your posts.

[roamer_1]

The KJB, like all other Bibles before it, came from....... The Vulgate, which is a late fourth-century Latin translation of the Bible that became, during the 16th century, the Catholic Church’s officially promulgated Latin version of the Bible. Without the Vulgate the King James Version of the Bible would not exist.

Utter nonsense.

The KJV NT derives from the Received Text - A compilation from Greek exemplars, wholly separate from the Vulgate. It's OT is derived from the Masoretic Text primarily, again wholly separate from the Vulgate. It would be accurate to say that it leaned upon the Vulgate, and the Septuagint, but no more so than the Syriac. Were the Vulgate unavailable, no doubt the KJV could have been rightly written all the same.

[MamaB]

Thanks. I have never been so down as I am now. I told someone I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. It seems like everything fell apart in 2008. I have a 2007 Accord and it has less than 21,000 miles on it. This bronchitis has knocked me for a loop.

[roamer_1]

Holy wall of text, Batman!!

[roamer_1]

Benjamin Wilson’s Emphatic Diaglott cites over 20,000 inconsistancies between the King James Authorized Version and actual Biblical text. Nevertheless it only requires one discrepancy to change the Word from His Word to King James word.

Against which criteria? which exemplars?

There are 300,000+ variations in the Greek across all families and exemplars... Most are little more than spelling errors... So your 20,000 number is relatively insignificant, and can be approximated critically without effort in attacking codex sinaiticus and codex vaticanus.

[Elsie]

That thing that is so 'poorly' taught?

[Elsie]

No one read because there was nothing to read.

Golly!

I wonder how Jesus learned to read?

[Elsie]

His alligiance was to himself, not the Pope.

I just HATE it when folks don't kiss the, ahem, ring of the POPE!

[Elsie]

No sense in posting anymore about King James’ sexuality.

In this thread.

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(I'm just SURE it'll come up again...)

[Elsie]

When you find Friday and Sunday in scripture let me know..

The WORDS?

[Elsie]

To sow confusion and discord.

[Elsie]

TADA!

[roamer_1]

EvenBatmanandRobincouldnotscalethatwall.

LOL!

[terycarl]

Golly! I wonder how Jesus learned to read?

He was God and I assume that He could read, however, that is just an assumption. I Jesus time, there were learned people who could read, but the general population relied on those people to read to them and interpret what the written messages were...The VAST majority of the people couldn't read and perhaps Jesus felt no need to do so. His parents were, as a tradesmans family, possible educated and thus could teach Jesus to read....but who knows???

[roamer_1]

That certainly is a lot of words.

Never use one word where two or three will do (Churchill, I think) : )

[boatbums]

I'd suggest not holding your breath while you wait for that answer. ;o)

What I have observed over the years here is that most often the polemical assertions initially made are actually the sum and substance of what they even know about the subject - it's a mile wide and an inch deep. Most of the time it's a borrowed phrase they heard or read from someone they think is smarter and just tossing it out is expected to stop any refutation. I suspect it hasn't occurred to some that there are plenty of smarter people on Free Republic who have no intention of letting a dubious claim stay unchallenged. It's disconcerting, I'm sure and is why we seldom see anything substantial by way of legitimate counter arguments. It also explains why the SAME assertions pop up the next time - as if nobody could or did shatter them.

[roamer_1]

He was God and I assume that He could read, however, that is just an assumption. I Jesus time, there were learned people who could read, but the general population relied on those people to read to them and interpret what the written messages were...The VAST majority of the people couldn't read and perhaps Jesus felt no need to do so. His parents were, as a tradesmans family, possible educated and thus could teach Jesus to read....but who knows???

That simply isn't true.

Your average Hebrew child was taught his aleph-bet by his mother, and wrote Torah at his father's knee before he was a teen... By the teen years, they had Torah memorized. If they excelled at such, they went on to school to learn the entire Tanakh, with the hopes of sitting at the feet of a rabbi. Every man wrote himself a Torah, as commanded in Torah.

Even base Hebrew slaves could read, and write as proven on the walls of mines in the Sinai, and upon the walls of Pompeii.

Literacy was widely practiced except where the Roman church seemed to be... funny, that.